A King in a Court of Fools

A King in a Court of Fools

Genre: Humorous fiction, coming of age, nostalgia

Age: Appropriate for ages 12 and up


A King in a Court of Fools begins with a book -- The Book of Tom -- a journal writing assignment from Tom Ryan's sixth-grade teacher, Sister Jeanne Lorette. That's what she called it. Tom called it punishment. In it, he chronicles the adventures of the Caswell Gang, a group of siblings and friends with two things in common -- their love of adventure and their allegiance to Tom, their king.

The 1950s book was misplaced a long time ago, and all the children have since grown up, but Harry, Tom's youngest brother, still remembers it and retells for us one of its stories in a nostalgic, heartwarming, and humorous way that will have you wishing for adventure, too.

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A Touch of Greek (Out of Olympus #1)

A Touch of Greek (Out of Olympus #1)

Romantic Comedy about Greek Gods

Selfish and gorgeous Greek God Triton is cast out of Olympus after seducing Zeus' mistress and can only gain reentry if he finds a woman who loves him for his kindness and selflessness, not his beauty. When the mortal Sophia - recovering from an eye operation and virtually blind - needs a home healthcare worker, he takes on the role, hoping she will be his ticket home.

While defending Sophia from an unknown adversary, Triton's protective instinct emerges. At the same time rival Gods do everything to doom him to failure. And even if Triton can win Sophia's love, will he throw it away to return home, or will he lose his own heart to the only woman who truly sees him?

A Touch of Greek is the first book in the humorous paranormal romance series Out of Olympus following the romantic adventures of four Gods: Triton, Dionysus, Eros, and Hermes.

To listen to an audio excerpt of A Touch of Greek read by the author, please visit: tinawritesromance.com/Audio_Excerpts_Trailers.html

Scanguards Vampires Series:
Book 1: Samson's Lovely Mortal
Book 2: Amaury's Hellion
Book 3: Gabriel's Mate
Book 4: Yvette's Haven
Book 5: coming at Christmas 2011

Out of Olympus Series (A romantic comedy series about Greek Gods):
Book 1: A Touch of Greek
Book 2: A Scent of Greek (JUST RELEASED!)

Venice Vampyr Novella Series:
Venice Vampyr (#1)
Venice Vampyr (#2): Final Affair
Venice Vampyr (#3): Sinful Treasure

Also available as a bundle (for a reduced price): Venice Vampyr - The Beginning

Stand alone books & short stories:
Lawful Escort
Steal Me (short)
The Wrong Suitor (short)
Captured to Breed (short)

Website: tinawritesromance.com
Blog: authortinafolsom.blogspot.com
Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorTinaFolsom

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My Man Pendleton

My Man Pendleton

Marry the boss's daughter?

Pendleton can't believe his ears. He took this new job hoping to make money, not marry into it. But if runaway heiress Kit McClellan doesn't agree to enter into wedded bliss soon, the entire family fortune could be willed to the homeless pets of Louisville. Someone has to find Kit and bring her back as his fiancée–and his boss is telling Pendleton he's just the man for the job.

Trouble is, Kit doesn't give two hoots about her fortune–she's looking for love…the sweep-you-off-your-feet kind of passion she's never had before. When Pendleton comes striding into her life–sexy, attractive, and oh-so-handsome in his business suit–her heart tells her she's finally found Mr. Right. But what if her heart is steering her wrong?

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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his "deadline poetry" for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isn't Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater, and in the column USA Today called "simply the funniest regular column in journalism."

Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance ("My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes") and the literary life ("The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.")

In Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, the author deals with such subjects as the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers ("We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal") and the true story behind the Shoe Bomber: "The one terrorist in England with a sense of humor, a man known as Khalid the Droll, had said to the cell, 'I bet I can get them all to take off their shoes in airports.' " He remembers Sarah Palin with a poem called "On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok" and John Edwards with one called "Yes, I Know He's a Mill Worker's Son, but There's Hollywood in That Hair."

In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious.


From the Hardcover edition.

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Troublesome Creek

Troublesome Creek

Like "Fried Green Tomatoes," this novella explores two young women misjudged and mistreated by the edgy residents of a small Southern town. By turns hilarious and sad, Daph and Normal, who is anything but, fight back after Normal the newcomer is treated like a freak. Which she is, till you get to know her. Shortly after the Twin Towers in New York were bombed, tough beauty-queen Daph befriends Normal who has jumped from a chicken truck near the store where Daph works, and the rural war on terriorism begins in earnest.

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When Love's at Work (Book one of the Embracing Love Trilogy)

When Love's at Work (Book one of the Embracing Love Trilogy)

Purity Zyetta is about to find out if the 27-day job interview she just endured will land her the position as events coordinator at The Kids' Place. Her future hangs in the balance. Not only because she desperately wants the job, but because board member Alex McCallister has found his way into her thoughts and dreams.

Will Purity be able to trust a man again after what Derek Worthington put her through? Even a restraining order hadn't kept him from contacting her and making menacing threats. And, he was still out there somewhere, waiting.

Is it possible to run into the arms of love, even when your common sense tells you not to? Purity Zyetta believes it is. Together with her friends, Courtney and Meg, Pure will soon find out that change requires a strong spirit and a willingness to learn from the past and embrace the future.

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The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion

The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion

Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America's fifty funniest writers-according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Roy Blount Jr., Ian Frazier, Bernie Mac, Wanda Sykes, and George Saunders, The 50 Funniest American Writers* is an exclusive Who's Who of the very best American comic writing. Here are Thurber and Perelman, Lenny Bruce and Bruce Jay Friedman, Garrison Keillor and Dave Barry and Veronica Geng, plus hilarious lesser known pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, Salon, and The Onion. Who does "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning) read when he needs a laugh? Here's Andy Borowitz to tell you.

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The End of the World

The End of the World

Are you prepared for what comes next?

Accustomed to a life of cosseted seclusion at home with his parents, Valentine is suddenly faced with making his own way in the world. His new life is quickly upended, however, when he's mugged at gunpoint. Finding shelter at a mysterious inn run by the dour Mrs. Anna, he soon encounters a Bosnian woman with a hole where her stomach used to be, an American entrepreneur with a scheme to implant televisions into people's foreheads, and a Catholic priest who attempts to lure him down inside a kitchen sink. Then things start getting strange...

In this story based loosely around the state of Bardo from The Tibetan Book of the Dead - an intermediate state where the dead arrive prior to rebirth - dying is the easy part. Getting out of Bardo and returning to the land of the living is a far more perilous proposition, and unless you know what you're doing...you might never leave.

An odd, yet oddly touching tale of life, death, and the space in-between.

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Milking the Rhino: Dangerously Funny Lists

Milking the Rhino: Dangerously Funny Lists

Chris Rush promised that if I gave him a favorable blurb, he would agree to be placed in a secure, isolated neuropsychiatric facility, away from the rest of us. Here goes: 'Chris's book is crammed with good, big, sick belly laughs.' Your turn, Chris. --George Carlin

I first saw Chris Rush thirty years ago, and he killed me. He has a bizarre, funny way of looking at things, and this book is proof of that. --Jay Leno

Chris Rush combines the stream-of-consciousness of a Lenny Bruce, a Monty-Pythonesque appreciation of the surreally absurd, and the mental energy of a Robin Williams. --New York Times

He is universal and intellectual without being elitist. --Variety

Comedian Chris Rush was one of the original contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He can be heard on Sirius and XM satellite radio and on the Joey Reynolds radio show every Friday at 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

In Milking the Rhino, Rush uses a series of unforgettable surreal images to create hilarious verbal cartoons presented in a seductive list form to transport you into a world of nonstop laughter.

Lists include:

* Seven Examples of Truth in Advertising You Will Never See

* Twenty-Five Really Lousy Jobs

* The Ten Worst Pickup Lines

* Ten Bizarre Hobbies

* Fourteen Novelty Items That Never Took Off

* Four Things You Shouldn't Do in Zero-Gravity Conditions

* Four UFO Incidents That Are Weirder Than Usual

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Never Buried (Leigh Koslow Mystery Series)

Never Buried (Leigh Koslow Mystery Series)

"A funny, fast-paced, clever, and unusual mystery that will have readers clamoring for more. Sheer delight." --Carolyn Hart

"A thoroughly delightful debut. Bright, breezy, and witty. I couldn't put it down."--Tamar Myers

The truth about what happened in 1949 went to Paul Fischer's grave... Too bad his body didn't!

Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow doesn't pack heat--just a few extra pounds. And she doesn't go looking for trouble. When she moved into her cousin Cara's refurbished Victorian house, she wasn't planning on discovering a corpse--certainly not one that had been embalmed ten years before. But as anyone in the small Pittsburgh borough of Avalon could tell her, her cousin's house has a history attached. A history dating back to two mysterious deaths in the summer of 1949.

Someone wants Leigh and Cara out of the house--someone who has something to hide. But that someone doesn't know Leigh's impetuous cousin, and when Cara digs her heels in, Leigh looks to her old college chum, local policewoman Maura Polanski, for help. But the answers the trio find only point to more questions. Were the scandalous deaths of fifty years ago really an accident and a suicide? Or were they murder?

The nearer the women get to the truth, the more desperate someone becomes. Because some secrets are better off kept. Especially when they hit close to home!

Originally published in mass market paperback by NAL/Penguin, Putnam, Inc. in 1999. Large-Print Edition published by Thorndike, 2002.

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Wackier Whisker Wisdom (Wacky Whisker Wisdom)

Wackier Whisker Wisdom (Wacky Whisker Wisdom)

A zany collection of super cute cat photos and wacky zingers.

Wackier Whisker Wisdom is a humorous photo book and the third in a series.

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Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Things are getting a little too hot at work for Sean, a young coffee roaster with loose morals and an overactive imagination obsessed with superheroes and Star Wars. His latest workplace romance with Kelly could turn out to be his biggest mistake yet--if anyone finds out.

"A fun romp through the world of coffee roasting and workplace romance."

A short story by J.K. Swift. 5600 words (25 pages), Rating: PG for language

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The Princess & the Penis

The Princess & the Penis

A beautiful, chaste, and completely naive princess encounters a strange lump in her mattress. The lump soon morphs into a shape familiar to everyone but her, triggering her curiosity and her father's greatest fears. He frantically tries to intervene, but having a large phantom phallus in a curious maiden's bed is never a good combination.

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